Following raids last week, the agency had claimed that 'high ranking officials connected with the Chief Minister’s Office' in Chhattisgarh received kickbacks to allow an illegal gaming app to run its operations in the state.
Those arrested include an ASI with Chhattisgarh Police, Chandrabhushan Verma; a businessman identified as Satish Chandrakar, and hawala operators Anil Dammani and Sunil Dammani.
An official said the Mahadev gaming application is being operated from over 25 centres and ED estimates that around a million individuals have placed bets on Mahadev application in 2021.
In an ongoing investigation into the Mahadev App racket, an online gaming platform that allegedly cheated people, the ED on Wednesday conducted searches at about 10 locations, including the premises of Baghel’s political advisor, Vinod Verma, and two officers on special duty at his office. It also searched the premises of a businessman based in Bhilai.
In an ongoing investigation into the Mahadev App racket the ED on Wednesday conducted searches at about 10 locations, including the premises of Baghel’s political advisor, Vinod Verma, two officers on special duty at his office and the premises of a businessman based in Bhilai.